Z5 Capital

Z5 Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2018. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage enterprise companies, focusing on sectors such as enterprise software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data management, infrastructure and cloud technology, and security. Z5 Capital primarily serves customers in the United States, seeking to support innovative startups that are poised for growth in these dynamic fields.

Nanda Krish

Co-Founding General Partner

Arun Ramamoorthy

Co-Founding Partner

13 past transactions

Nirmata

Venture Round in 2025
Nirmata, Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, focused on providing a platform that facilitates the delivery and operation of cloud-native applications. Founded in 2013, Nirmata develops software-as-a-service solutions that offer unified governance, security, and compliance for containerized applications. Its flagship products include Kubernetes-as-a-Service, which automates operations, and multi-cloud cluster management, which enhances application portability across various cloud environments. Nirmata is also recognized as the creator and core maintainer of Kyverno, a widely used policy engine for Kubernetes, which has seen significant adoption in regulated industries such as banking, healthcare, and life sciences. The company's platform integrates policy as code to address security challenges, helping engineering teams avoid misconfigurations and establish secure defaults in real time. Nirmata serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 2000 companies, and has established itself as a key player in the cloud-native technology landscape.

Clientell

Seed Round in 2024
Clientell is a developer of a no-code revenue intelligence platform specifically designed for contract research organizations. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to empower businesses to create tailored AI models efficiently, enabling functionalities such as predictions, uplift modeling, churn analysis, look-alikes, and scenario simulations. This approach allows organizations to understand pipeline risks, enhance deal closure rates, and achieve accurate forecasts. By leveraging systematic, data-driven decision-making, Clientell's solution helps business leaders improve marketing and product strategies, increase deal conversions, and automate customer relationship management processes.

Alltius

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Alltius operates a conversational AI assistant platform called KNO, designed to enhance user interaction with SaaS products. The platform enables product owners to incorporate Generative AI capabilities, allowing users to access information rapidly and efficiently. KNO functions as a no-code Help SaaS tool, trained on various data sources such as product knowledge bases, support tickets, and video tutorials. By streamlining the process of finding answers, it significantly reduces the time users spend seeking information, thereby improving customer satisfaction and reducing support costs by 40-70%. The team behind Alltius comprises experts from notable institutions and companies, all focused on augmenting human intelligence through advanced AI solutions. KNO can be easily integrated into platforms like Slack or used as a standalone widget or API, further enhancing employee productivity and operational efficiency.

Secuvy

Seed Round in 2023
Secuvy is a data security and privacy company that specializes in providing an AI-driven platform for data governance, security, and compliance. The company offers a range of services, including data discovery and classification, which utilizes AI and machine learning to automatically identify and categorize sensitive data across various environments. Additionally, Secuvy provides data security posture management to ensure visibility and control of data security in hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises systems. Its compliance automation features streamline privacy operations by automating workflows for data protection and privacy impact assessments. The platform also includes risk assessment capabilities, allowing for automated scans to identify misclassifications and security vulnerabilities, along with remediation options. Furthermore, Secuvy enables secure collaboration through policy-based file encryption and integration with digital rights management platforms to safeguard against data leakage during external interactions.

StepFunction.ai

Seed Round in 2022
StepFunction is a market leader in revenue growth solutions for SaaS. Based on a data-driven, real-time understanding of customer intent, it assists leading SaaS companies in significantly increasing the amount and predictability of their subscription revenues. By applying advanced analytics to customer behavior signals and operational data, the company hopes to turn SaaS operations into a science. The StepFunction Customer Intent Engine uses machine learning to provide SaaS clients with data-driven, real-time, and actionable insights for customer retention and upsell. With bullseye targeting, SaaS clients can achieve top-line growth through increased customer retention, reduced churn, and targeted upselling, as well as bottom-line growth by lowering customer acquisition costs.

qiibee

Seed Round in 2022
Qiibee is a software company that specializes in providing a blockchain-based platform for businesses and consumers to manage loyalty programs efficiently. By offering plug-and-play solutions, Qiibee enables enterprises to implement and operate their loyalty applications on the blockchain within hours. The company is focused on creating a decentralized loyalty ecosystem built on Ethereum, allowing for the tokenization of loyalty applications. Additionally, Qiibee equips businesses with tools to collect and analyze data securely, enhancing their ability to understand customer behavior and expand their market reach. With its innovative approach, Qiibee aims to set a new standard for loyalty programs globally.

Nirmata

Seed Round in 2021
Nirmata, Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, focused on providing a platform that facilitates the delivery and operation of cloud-native applications. Founded in 2013, Nirmata develops software-as-a-service solutions that offer unified governance, security, and compliance for containerized applications. Its flagship products include Kubernetes-as-a-Service, which automates operations, and multi-cloud cluster management, which enhances application portability across various cloud environments. Nirmata is also recognized as the creator and core maintainer of Kyverno, a widely used policy engine for Kubernetes, which has seen significant adoption in regulated industries such as banking, healthcare, and life sciences. The company's platform integrates policy as code to address security challenges, helping engineering teams avoid misconfigurations and establish secure defaults in real time. Nirmata serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 2000 companies, and has established itself as a key player in the cloud-native technology landscape.

Flexmoney

Series A in 2021
Flexmoney is a digital credit platform focused on transforming consumer credit into an instant service at the point of sale. It provides a buy now, pay later (BNPL) solution that allows shoppers to make purchases through manageable monthly installments, eliminating the need for extensive documentation or down payments. The platform supports banks, lenders, merchants, and brands by offering a seamless and integrated purchase financing experience, enhancing the transaction process for both consumers and businesses. Flexmoney aims to create a frictionless credit experience at the point of sale, making it easier for customers to access the products they desire.

ArmorCode

Seed Round in 2021
ArmorCode is a cybersecurity company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2020. It provides an AppSecOps platform aimed at simplifying application security and reducing application exposure and risk. The platform offers comprehensive features for application security posture, vulnerability and compliance management, and DevSecOps automation. By integrating with the broader security ecosystem, ArmorCode's solution helps organizations de-duplicate, correlate, and orchestrate security findings, ultimately enhancing their protection against third-party attacks. The company aims to deliver significant improvements in application security efficiency, achieving a tenfold increase in AppSec force multiplier impact for various prominent enterprises.

Accuknox

Seed Round in 2021
AccuKnox specializes in cloud security solutions, focusing on a zero-trust approach to safeguard cloud-native organizations. Their platform is designed to protect various container workloads by establishing identity as a perimeter, which helps isolate and secure applications throughout the software development lifecycle. AccuKnox covers a wide range of environments, including public and private clouds, Kubernetes, virtual machines, bare metal, IoT Edge, and 5G security. By employing a differentiated DevSecOps methodology and leveraging an open-source framework, the company enables clients to effectively track and manage tainted data, networking, and system-level restrictions, thereby enhancing the overall security of applications, networks, and data.

Prescient Devices

Seed Round in 2021
Prescient Devices is a provider of SaaS-based IoT application development solutions. The company offers Prescient Designer, which is a low-code design automation software that enables system integrators, IT/OT engineers, and data scientists to build sensor-to-cloud IoT and edge computing solutions. Its platform builds and manages integrated cloud apps, interactive dashboards, and edge apps on a single platform, with enterprise-grade security and scale. Founded in 2018 by Andy Wang, Prescient Devices is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts.

CoreStack

Series A in 2020
CoreStack is a cloud management platform founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The company focuses on enabling enterprises to achieve continuous cloud compliance and autonomous cloud governance. Its platform assists organizations in managing observability, consumption, compliance, and costs by utilizing cloud-native technology and facilitating connector-less integration, dynamic discovery, and orchestration of multi-cloud inventory. By leveraging these capabilities, CoreStack empowers businesses to maximize agility and enhance their operational efficiency, ultimately delivering predictable outcomes aligned with their budgets and policies. The platform is utilized by numerous global enterprises across various industries, underscoring its effectiveness in automating cloud operations and ensuring compliance.

CoreStack

Venture Round in 2018
CoreStack is a cloud management platform founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The company focuses on enabling enterprises to achieve continuous cloud compliance and autonomous cloud governance. Its platform assists organizations in managing observability, consumption, compliance, and costs by utilizing cloud-native technology and facilitating connector-less integration, dynamic discovery, and orchestration of multi-cloud inventory. By leveraging these capabilities, CoreStack empowers businesses to maximize agility and enhance their operational efficiency, ultimately delivering predictable outcomes aligned with their budgets and policies. The platform is utilized by numerous global enterprises across various industries, underscoring its effectiveness in automating cloud operations and ensuring compliance.
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